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noun
Moisture falling from the mouth; slaver.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A saw for cutting slabs from logs.
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noun
A slabbing machine.
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noun
Someone who makes slabs.
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noun
An inhabitant of Slab City, a snowbird campsite in the Colorado Desert in southeastern California.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, informal
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verb
To let saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; drivel; slaver.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To eat hastily or in a slovenly manner, as liquid food.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To wet and befoul by liquids falling carelessly from the mouth; slaver; slobber.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To cover, as with a liquid spill; soil; befoul.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
let saliva drivel from the mouth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: drivel, drool, slaver, slobber, dribble
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Broader terms: salivate
History
From Middle English slaberen, from Middle Dutch slabberen (“to lap, sup, slaver, slabber”), from Old Dutch *slabron, from Proto-West Germanic *slabrōn, from Proto-Germanic *slabrōną (“to scrawl, make a mess”), ultimately imitative. Cognate with Low German slabbern (“to slabber”), German schlabbern (“to slabber”), Icelandic slafra (“to slaver”). More at slaver.
From slab + -er.
